Welll …..? (ST INTERVIEW AUDIO)

What did you think? Did I have too much a of a twang? LOL. I thought I had lost most of my southern accent from my days in radio but it’s alive and well Edited to add: and I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, either!

I did manage to get it recorded but my copy is 74.2 MB! To Kevin: were you able to get it recorded and if so, how big is the file?

A big thanks to Allman and Smash – had a great time!

Afternoon update: Let’s hope this link works! (Mucho thanks, Kevin!) Note: it might take a minute or so to load, depending on your connection speed, so please be patient

18 Responses to "Welll …..? (ST INTERVIEW AUDIO)"

LCVRWC says:

October 11, 2005 at 11:01 am

I was born in SC–it’s nice to hear an honest ‘twang.’I was also born in the Navy, which means I moved around a lot as a kid, and I now have a northern accent

ST, it was a wonderful little interview, and a nice introduction to how one becomes a conservative Republican. I felt you could have gone into more detail on *why* you became a Repub…OTOH, you only had so much time and there isn’t enough time, I suspect, to explain all of that.

I hope they do have you back as a guest. Please be sure to let us know when and if that happens!
Kevin says:

October 11, 2005 at 11:48 am

5 meg. I’ll send it now. I didn’t wanna clog your email if you didn’t need it.
Sister Toldjah says:

October 11, 2005 at 11:49 am

Thanks Kevin! I’ll be on the lookout for it!
Johnnybuck says:

October 11, 2005 at 1:56 pm

ST, You sounded great on Jamie & Smash this morning! You got me motivated to blog a little myself!
Brian says:

October 11, 2005 at 2:24 pm

Great job, SJ! I listened to it all. I heard a charming southern accent.

If you want to hear “twang”, you have to come to the midwest (Iowa) to hear it: Not quite “southern”, not quite “northern”…but pure “hick”, nonetheless. 😆
Sister Toldjah says:

October 11, 2005 at 2:49 pm

Cool! Keep on bloggin’, Johnny

Brian – I’ll keep that in mind about the accent! I’m fascinated by different accents … while we are talking about that, I know I have quite a few west coast readers here and would just like to say to them that it is very hard for me to guess a California accent. I’ve got some friends in Cali and in talking to them I have noticed that they don’t have a southern twang nor thick northern brogue (I guess that is the right word?).

In general terms, sometimes when you are talking on the phone, you can kind of get an idea where the person on the other end is from by their accent – but unless I know for advance that the company I am calling is in California, I can’t place the accent of the person I’m talking to.
Brian says:

October 11, 2005 at 4:35 pm

Keep in mind, SJ, that here in Iowa we say “ya’ll” as if we were southern. But then, for good measure, we saw “warsh” for “wash”, and we say “pop” instead of “soda”. You get the idea. A culture all it’s own, for sure.
Kevin says:

October 11, 2005 at 6:37 pm

Great stuff on PETA. I dislike them intensely. They are the end result of moral relativism. I eat extra meat to spite them.

Earlier in the show, someone called in from a special branch of PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals). I’m trying to join
Denise says:

October 11, 2005 at 7:06 pm

How very nice it was to hear your voice! You are as articulate through radio as you are through writing. I wish they gave you more time to go into issues relating to President Bush and the war in Iraq. I was yearning to hear you slam-dunk that topic!

You mentioned you don’t get a lot of hits per day on your site. I would be interested to hear if your guest speaking on Allman and Smash brings new visitors. I know for darn sure I hit you daily and feel withdrawal symptoms if I don’t have access to a computer for a few days!

You did a great job today. Thanks to Kevin for providing us with this link, because I had issues connecting to their website.
ArizonaTeach says:

October 11, 2005 at 7:53 pm

/Henry Higgens mode ON/
Uh-yep, there is a definitely an accent detectable, especially when you make a dipthong of /o/, but it’s actually pretty clean altogether.
/’enry ‘iggens mode OFF/

And, I’ll have you know that I have a pretty damn extensive collection of classic comics (which, since they’re $50.00-$75.00 archived collections of 1930s-40s books, I don’t feel to immature buying!) However, yeah, the PETA one won’t find its way to my bookshelf.

Great job, nice to put a voice to the blog!
Sister Toldjah says:

October 11, 2005 at 8:22 pm

LC: Yeah – so much to say and so little time, and I’m so long winded too .. LOL

Brian: LOL! I’ll keep that in mind – I have heard a few people around here say “warsh” – wonder if they were from Iowa?

Kevin: Heh I was listening to them for about thirty minutes before I went on and heard them talking about the PETA kills animals website. I didn’t know such a site existed. Learn something new everyday.

Denise: Looking back, I really did wish I had more time to go into that … ah well. Hopefully, there will be a next time I’m linked up now on Allman’s Electric Stove and also have gotten some feedback via email about the show too so that’s cool.

AT: I thought about the collection of comic books amongst adults almost immediately after I said that on the show … I had a friend a while back who collected them. Apologies to all the adults who collect comic books out there! ops:
Lorica says:

October 11, 2005 at 9:49 pm

Hello Nurse!!! 😆 You have a wonderful voice and accent. You sounded very intelligent, and well informed, which we all knew just by your writing here. I am soooo happy for you. You did great. 🙂

Ahem Brian, I am from Iowa, born and raised. I have rarely heard some use the term “warsh”. Y’all might be more common with the older folk in the rural areas of Iowa, but it was not something I heard on a daily basis.
LCVRWC says:

October 12, 2005 at 8:33 am

I’ve seen some of the peta comic books–in fact, I have their copy of “It’s a Rat’s Life” in my CB collection (I had pet rats when I was younger. They’re delightful little creatures once you get past any prejudices you might have.); the comic is full of misinformation and bad facts. It used to be online; I spent too much time at work yesterday trying to find it. You can get it from them for free if you go to the petakids site.
frank says:

October 12, 2005 at 10:02 am

The interview left me nauseated, if only for the claptrap regarding your “change” from a Democrat to a Republican. Oh how these conversion stories are getting tiresome, David Horowitz’s chief among them. As if claiming “I saw the light” even gives an added ounce of credibility. But just like Horowitz, Sister, I would bet all my possessions that your rhetorical habits haven’t changed one bit.

What drives me crazy is if somebody is disgruntled with their side of the political spectrum, why is the action taken always a switch from Team A to Team Z, with no stopping in between. Yeah, go ahead Sister, keep telling people of your transformation. But the reality is while you switched uniforms, you’re still a cultist conformer.

Just posting this so people can see the kind of crap I have to deal with behind the scenes sometimes. These are the kind of comments that I generally don’t post because of their sheer [insert unfavorable descriptive word here] but I made an exception in this instance. Not posting comments like these on my blog leads to laughable cries by the usual suspects of (paraphrasing) “you’re violating my right to free speech!!!!” and “you’re intolerant regarding other points of view!!!!!” emphasis theirs (of course I didn’t include the profanity often included in many of the complaints I get, either). — ST
Baklava says:

October 12, 2005 at 4:43 pm

I converted too Frank.
Walter E. Wallis says:

October 12, 2005 at 4:55 pm

Back in ’36 I had to lose my Missouri mellowness quickly because otherwise I would be mistaken for an Okie, a definite untermensch in California back then. Missouri women who sound like my aunts still do it to me.
CavalierX says:

October 13, 2005 at 6:39 am

That was great — you sounded terrific! 😀 And no, an accent is definitely not a bad thing…
Lorica says:

October 13, 2005 at 2:06 pm

I also converted from the Democrat party to the Republican party. It was not some emotional feel good “claptrap”. People of faith who want to consider other alternatives to the ideals that are changing our culture were pushed out of the party in the 90s. Al Gore is a perfect example. In the 80s he said no to taxpayer funded abortions, as Veep, he was all for it. It was tow the line or leave. So I left. I liked Al Gore, and I am from Iowa, originally. I liked his Dad they both did a pretty good job as Senators.

I have and always will be a man of faith, I was as a Democrat, and I am as a Republican. As I have said in a previous post. I considered my Dad, who was a UAW member, a traitor for voting for Ronald Reagan in 1980, and then again in 1984. I voted Democrat in 1984, my first Presidential vote, and Democrat again in 1988. I was disenchanted with both parties in 1992, so as a choice to exercise my right of free speech I voted for Perot. So did alot of other Americans. Seemed to me that the Republican party listened to those people. My conversion was complete(said in my best Darth Vader voice) when soon after Clinton became President he started indulging every special interest that he could. Tax money for Abortion went world wide, “don’t ask, don’t tell” came into effect. Then the Travel office being fired in favor of “friends”, and this list of improprieties just kept growing. I didn’t vote in 1996 or in 2000. I didn’t like any of the canidates that were offered. I did vote for GW in 2004 not so much that I liked him, which I do. I just could not stand the other guy. The more he talked the more I was certain that the lesser of two evils was absolutely GW. I still stand firm in that conviction.

What I really find nauseating is how those of my friends who I left behind see no wrong in present Democratic leadership. I find it hilliarious that they continue to accuse GW of siding with the rich, when some of the richest people in our government are Democrats, Kerry, who had to sell his home in Italy to run for President in 2004, Kennedy, Edwards, Gore, and now the Clintons are multi-millionaries. Seems to me they can’t see the forest for the trees, but what do I really know, after all I am just and extremist right wing conservative christian Republican. LOL

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